and off the coast of South Africa, has attracted considerable scientific interest. In 1998, a second living species of coelacanth, Latimeria menadoensis (named ikan raja laut, the king fish of the ...

Once known only from fossils, they were thought to be extinct until a fisher in South Africa hauled one up in ... The two coelacanth species alive today, Latimeria chalumnae and Latimeria ...

Imagine the surprise when, in 1938, this so-called “extinct” fish was discovered alive and well off the coast of South Africa. As per the report, the coelacanth’s physical traits are nothing ...

South Africa is unleashing weevils imported from the United States in a bid to fight off the sprouting growth of Salvinia minima, an alien species of aquatic plant native to South America that is chok ...